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River Flood Warning 16, NWS Morristown, TN

February 24, 2019Hamilton County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this river flood warning at Feb 24, 2019, 3:35 AM EST for Hamilton County, Tennessee. It took effect at Feb 24, 2019, 10:06 AM EST. It was in force for 63 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 24, 2019, 3:35 AM EST (08:35 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 24, 2019, 10:06 AM EST
Expired: Feb 27, 2019, 1:00 AM EST
In force: 63 hr
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Hamilton County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Tennessee River at Chattanooga (CHAT1).

Action stage: 649 ft
Minor stage: 651.1 ft
Moderate stage: 653 ft
Major stage: 655 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03568000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Feb 23, 6:34 PM EST, 9 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 6:34 PM EST, 9 hours 1 minute before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 23, 8:40 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Marion, Sequatchie	65 min
Feb 23, 8:54 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Bradley, Polk	3 hr
Feb 23, 10:17 PM EST	River Flood Advisory	MRX	Loudon, Roane	36 hr
Feb 23, 11:15 PM EST	River Flood Warning	MRX	Loudon, Roane	7 days
Feb 24, 9:27 AM EST	River Flood Warning	MRX	Hancock	10 hr
Feb 23, 9:57 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Lee, Russell, Wise, City of Norton	12 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2019 Every river flood warning in 2019

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.